tl:dr:”People who suffer from schizophrenia are, in fact, three times more likely to carry T. gondii than those who do not.”
“Over the last five years or so, evidence has been building that some human cultural shifts might be influenced, or even caused, by the spread of Toxoplasma gondii.”
“In the United States, 12.3 percent of women tested carried the parasite, and in the United Kingdom only 6.6 percent were infected. But in some countries, statistics were much higher. 45 percent of those tested in France were infected, and in Yugoslavia 66.8 percent were infected!”
Have you tried using another browser? That might help you figure out if the problem is actually on the browser end and not something weird with the LW software.
I’m using a different browser (different computer same browser by name) now and it is working fine. My other browser seems to work fine for a while after I restart it until some event causes it to thereafter double post every time. My hunch is that I could identify the triggering of one of the plugins as the cause. Even then the symptom is outright bizarre. What kind of bug would make the browser double send all post requests?
genes, memes and parasites?
tl:dr:”People who suffer from schizophrenia are, in fact, three times more likely to carry T. gondii than those who do not.”
“Over the last five years or so, evidence has been building that some human cultural shifts might be influenced, or even caused, by the spread of Toxoplasma gondii.”
“In the United States, 12.3 percent of women tested carried the parasite, and in the United Kingdom only 6.6 percent were infected. But in some countries, statistics were much higher. 45 percent of those tested in France were infected, and in Yugoslavia 66.8 percent were infected!”
Wow. How is this parasite spread? Could those ‘girly germs’ that I avoided in primary school actually reduce my chances of getting schizophrenia?
wait, what’s a girly germ? I googled it and it game me a link about a Micronesian island :/
Do young kids where you are come tease each other about the other sex? ‘Cooties?’ Whatever they call it.
My question is how the parasite is spread. What does that 12.3% mean for the rest of the population? Why did they only test women?
It’s a major pregnancy risk.
Do young kids where you are come tease each other about the other sex? ‘Cooties?’ Whatever they call it.
My question is how the parasite is spread. What does that 12.3% mean for the rest of the population? Why did they only test women?
Ick. My double posting browser bug again.
Have you tried using another browser? That might help you figure out if the problem is actually on the browser end and not something weird with the LW software.
I’m using a different browser (different computer same browser by name) now and it is working fine. My other browser seems to work fine for a while after I restart it until some event causes it to thereafter double post every time. My hunch is that I could identify the triggering of one of the plugins as the cause. Even then the symptom is outright bizarre. What kind of bug would make the browser double send all post requests?
Perhaps a failed attempt at spyware!
No matter. I don’t like my other computer anyway.